AdMonsters Europe XI European Marketing Partners see also: sponsorship — agenda will be held Registration Attendance is open to individuals employed by European online media publishing companies and advertising networks, whose roles focus on online advertising operations and/or advertising technology. If you are already an AdMonsters member, please visit…
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Last week was the second US Publisher Forum of the year and this time the setting was Portland, Oregon. The event had a special vibe to it in part because of the setting (Portland prides itself on being different), the number of people (the event was sold out) and the…
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Last week was our 12th Publisher Forum in Europe and it was quite frankly a huge success. Prague provided a great location for the event and all of the sessions were quite interactive. I'll be working with the session leaders to see if I can get them to summarize their…
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When looking at ways to improve upon scalability and the level of client services, one must weight the options of centralized vs. decentralized Ad Operations Department. If you work in an organizational structure that has multiple sales offices in various locations (satellite offices), decentralizing Ad Operations can make sense. If…
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Depending on how much you work with Google applications last week, you probably found yourself unable to access them or at least hindered by how slow things operated. #googlefail as it has been called set off a flurry of articles about the potential dangers of cloud computing and reliance on…
Read MorePeter Naylor, SVP of NBC Universal referenced John Lennon's lyrics "Nobody told me there'd be days like these" during his keynote presentation at AdMonsters' 20th Publisher Forum in New Orleans last week. The fact that we are in uncharted waters certainly permeated the entire event, but everyone was focused on…
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Over the next several days, we're going to recap some of the key themes and takeaways from our 20th Publisher Forum in New Orleans last week. It was another 'best yet' event for us and with everything going on in the industry today, it could not have been better timed.…
Read MoreOutsourcing is increasingly under review by many publishers for all aspects of their business, including ad operations. If you do decide to go with an outsourcer, one of the major challenges is designing and implementing the service level agreement, or SLA. The SLA is meant to define success metrics, help govern…
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By the time publishers are seriously considering contract management services, they have experienced such operational pain that they are ready to do the proverbial “head nod”. In other words, as an organization they acknowledge the need WITHOUT understanding the implications on operations and workflow. In order to successfully launch contract…
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When it comes to inventory reports, we don’t go far enough in creating the solutions that fit our needs. As an industry, our mindset is to do the best we can, and live with the cards we are dealt by whatever ad serving solution we utilize. But the truth of…
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